Biography
David Kenneth Cook was a British author, screenwriter and actor. Born in Preston, Lancashire, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1959 to 1961 and began his career as an actor on stage and television.
He presented the first two series of the children's programme Rainbow in 1972 before concentrating on writing. His 1978 novel Walter, which won the Hawthornden Prize, was adapted by Cook into a television film directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ian McKellen; it was screened on Channel 4's opening night in 1982. He later wrote the screenplay for the 1994 film Second Best.
Cook died in 2015.
